The Military Revolutionary Committee summons the Baltic fleet sailors to Petrograd

20:35

The pre-parliament fails to support Kerensky

21:30

Bolsheviks install outposts by the Winter Palace

22:25

Lenin arrives at Smolny

00:25

An emergency session of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet opens at Smolny

03:30

The cruiser "Aurora" has approached the Nikolaevsky bridge. It poses a direct threat to the Winter Palace

06:40

The Central Telephone station, State bank and other government buildings are taken

07:00

The Baltic fleet torpedo boats are on their way to Petrograd from Helsingfors

10:00

Lenin: "The Provisional Government is deposed."

10:45

Prime Minister Kerensky leaves Petrograd

12:40

The Bolsheviks disbanded the Pre-parliament

14:00

Minister of Social Welfare Kishkin is vested with dictatorial powers

18:50

Bolsheviks delivered an ultimatum to the Provisional Government demanding their surrender under the threat of opening fire at the Winter Palace

19:20

Minister of Transportation Liverovsky: "It's been unanimously decided not to answer the ultimatum and to stay in the Winter Palace."

19:40

Petrograd Military District Headquarters surrendered to the Bolsheviks

21:00

The Provisional Government is calling for help. They sent a radiogram asking people to respond to the insane attempt by the Bolsheviks to start an uprising

21:40

A cannon shot is heard from the "Aurora"

22:40

The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets opens at Smolny

00:20

Trotsky speaks at the All-Russian Congress of Soviets: "To those who left and who are now making those suggestions, we say: "You are pathetic, you are bankrupt, your part is over! Go back to where you belong now: the trashcan of history!"

01:00

The storm of the Winter Palace begins

02:10

The Winter Palace is taken. The Provisional Government is under arrest.

03:00

The Moscow Kremlin is taken by the Moscow Bolsheviks

03:10

The All-Russian Congress of Soviets has resumed its session. Lev Kamenev announces that the Winter Palace is taken.

03:40

The ministers are imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress

03:50

Lenin: «All power in the localities shall pass to the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, which must guarantee genuine revolutionary order.»

Krylenko, staggering with fatigue, climbed to the tribune with a telegram in his hand.

“Comrades! From the Northern Front. The Twelfth Army sends greetings to the Congress of Soviets, announcing the formation of a Military Revolutionary Committee which has taken over the command of the Northern Front!” Pandemonium, men weeping, embracing each other. “General Tchermissov has recognized the Committee—Commissar of the Provisional Government Voitinsky has resigned!”

It was truly said that the Russian sailors killed many more Russian officers during the eight months after the Revolution than they had killed German officers in the preceding three and a half years of war.

Georgy Tumanov, the aide to the Minister of the Military, who was arrested several hours ago, was killed in the yard of the Volynsky regiment barracks. Sailors have reportedly arrived at the barracks, pulled Tumanov outside and tortured him for one and a half hours, and then, once they killed him, they threw his body into the Moika river.

Soldiers, actively resist Kerensky the Kornilovite! Be on your guard! Railwaymen, hold up all troop trains dispatched by Kerensky against Petrograd! Soldiers, workers in factory and office, the fate of the revolution and the fate of the democratic peace is in your hands! Long live the revolution!

The Soviet government will propose an immediate democratic peace to all the nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts. It will secure the transfer of the land of the landed proprietors, the crown and the monasteries to the peasant committees without compensation; it will protect the rights of the soldiers by introducing complete democracy in the army; it will establish workers’ control over production; it will ensure the convocation of the Constituent Assembly at the time appointed; it will see to it that bread is supplied to the cities and prime necessities to the villages; it will guarantee all the nations inhabiting Russia the genuine right to self-determination.